Willi Fuhrmann

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Willi Fuhrmann (born July 4, 1944 in Neumühl , Kehl ; † July 27, 2018 in Oberwart ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Fuhrmann was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1987 to 1998 and a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1998 to 2001 .

education and profession

After primary school, Fuhrmann attended a humanistic grammar school in Baden near Vienna , which he graduated from in 1962 with the Matura. He did his military service, studied newspaper science and graduated from the University of Vienna in 1970 with the academic degree Dr. iur. from. During his studies, Fuhrmann worked as a journalist and insurance salesman and, after completing his studies, completed his legal and legal practice. In 1976 he opened his own law firm in Baden and from 1984 also worked as an examination commissioner for the bar exam at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna.

politics

Fuhrmann began his political career between 1980 and 1990 as a councilor in Baden and between 1985 and 1988 he was also a city councilor. From 1988 to 1990 he held the office of Vice Mayor. Fuhrmann was also inside party chairman of the district organization of the SPÖ Baden, member of the state party executive committee and the state party presidium as well as a member of the federal party executive committee. He represented the SPÖ in the National Council from November 24, 1987, and between 1990 and 1994 held the office of chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary club . He was also the judicial spokesman for the SPÖ and in 1994 a member of the Austrian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In January 1998 Fuhrmann was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as one of the 40 judges of the new European Court of Human Rights. Fuhrmann then announced that he would leave his law firm in the course of his move to Strasbourg and resign from his seat in the National Council. On September 16, 1998, Fuhrmann finally resigned from his National Council mandate. Fuhrmann resigned as judge of the European Court of Human Rights on October 30, 2001, after the ÖVP / FPÖ federal government had not nominated him for a new term of office. This step, in addition to Austria, only Moldova had changed its judge, led to severe criticism from the incumbent court president, Luzius Wildhaber , who had praised Fuhrmann as "excellently proven" and urged him to be reappointed. Fuhrmann's failure to nominate was criticized as politically motivated by the opposition, as was Wildhaber himself. Subsequently, in March 2001, Wildhaber initially also rejected the three-way proposal put in by the federal government, on which Fuhrmann had not been considered. In the end, however, Elisabeth Steiner was elected as his successor on April 25, 2001.

After his return to Austria, Fuhrmann resigned from the SPÖ in 2006 and informed the press that he had “felt abandoned by his party friends” “in the most difficult situations” of his life. At that time he was already retired for health reasons and had moved from Lower Austria to Burgenland.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Panorama / Profiles. In: profile . No. 6/11998, February 2, 1998
  2. ↑ Transfer criticized. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . February 22, 2001
  3. ↑ Wildhaber rejects the three-way proposal. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . March 2, 2001
  4. ^ Ex-club boss Willi Fuhrmann has resigned from the SPÖ. In: Courier . September 23, 2006
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumühl
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2018
Place of death Oberwart